{"id":22211,"date":"2011-08-17T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/unblogged-bits-wed-17-aug-11-1731.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:08:09","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-17-aug-11-1731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/unblogged-bits-wed-17-aug-11-1731.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-Aug-11 1731)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….<\/p>\n
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  1. First Glimpses inside J.K. Rowling’s Magical Online World of Pottermore<\/a> – Hmmmm. Not sure it’s my cuppa, but it could be fun.<\/li>\n
  2. Palin tour comes to abrupt halt – POLITICO.com<\/a> – Again? Ho-hum.<\/li>\n
  3. POTUS Addresses ObamaCare: ‘If the Other Side Wants to be the Folks Who Don’t Care – Fine With Me’<\/a> – That’s moderately clever of him. If he sticks to it.<\/li>\n
  4. Dogmatic Arrogance: The Picture of the 2012 Presidential Elections<\/a> – “The vice of refusing to compromise is the vice of arrogance.”<\/li>\n
  5. Eric Boehlert: Did News Corp. Cover Up U.S. Computer Hacking?<\/a> – I certainly wouldn’t be surprised.<\/li>\n
  6. What does Android, iOS say about you? [Infographic]<\/a> – One of the attendees at our meeting pulled this infographic out, which raises a fair amount of discussion between Android owners like me and Those Other People.<\/li>\n
  7. Big Tobacco Sues FDA Over Ghastly Warning Photos<\/a> – While I have a small amount of appreciation for the cigarette companies’ argument here — the fact is, they are cigarette companies and deserve anything that comes to them. That’s not a reasoned response, but it’s mine nonetheless.<\/li>\n
  8. Disney Exec Says Tentpole Movies are About Spectacle, Not Story. Is He Right?<\/a> – The list indicates to me that spectacle might get the first weekend or two into the theaters, but story on top of spectacle are what drive subsequent weekends, repeat viewings, video purchases, etc.<\/li>\n
  9. \u2018Lone Ranger\u2019 May Not Be Dead Yet<\/a> – Still shaking my head over Depp as Tonto.<\/li>\n
  10. Missouri School Sued For Allegedly Making Special Ed Student Write Apology Letter To Her Rapist<\/a> – (Grinds teeth …)<\/li>\n
  11. TOM THE DANCING BUG: Hey, Kids! The World You\u2019re On\u2026 has CORPORATIONS!<\/a> – HA!<\/li>\n
  12. Improved dating process upsets timeline of Moon formation<\/a> – See? This is the cool thing about SCIENCE: it keeps looking for answers, even if it knocks down previously accepted answers in the process.<\/li>\n
  13. Obama NM campaign manager publicly blasts Krugman, liberal blogs, insinuates comparison with Teabaggers: John Aravosis (DC)<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. When Rick Perry Badmouths The Stimlulus Package Remember That He Benfited From It<\/a> – Actions speak louder than ugly words.<\/li>\n
  15. Airman Goes AWOL In Germany Because Internet Says Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Fake (VIDEO)<\/a> – Regardless of whether he’s AWOL or not, I’m glad he’s no longer authorized to bear firearms in defense of the country.<\/li>\n
  16. The Daily Mail knowingly and commercially used my photos despite my denying them permission.<\/a> – Stay classy, Daily Mail!<\/li>\n
  17. Geller: Republicans Allied With Norquist Are Tied To The Muslim Brotherhood<\/a> – Aw, c’mon, Pam, do NOT make me actually say something in defense of Rick Perry …<\/li>\n
  18. Homeopathy multinational sues blogger over statements that its mythological curative had \u201cno active ingredient\u201d<\/a> – Homeopathy strikes me as one of the biggest scams of all time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. First Glimpses inside J.K. Rowling’s Magical Online World of Pottermore – Hmmmm. Not sure it’s my cuppa, but it could be fun. Palin tour comes to abrupt halt – POLITICO.com – Again? Ho-hum. POTUS Addresses ObamaCare: ‘If the Other … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 17-Aug-11 1731)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,3,381,263,100,99,12,10,527,134,70,41,65,9,358,16,132,82,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-blogging","category-conspiracy-nuts","category-disney","category-dolts","category-elections-2012","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-harry-potter","category-health-care","category-health-science","category-media-movies","category-my-mobile-pda","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-privacy","category-space","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131008,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/because-big-health-care-needs-to-become-bigger-health-care.html","url_meta":{"origin":22211,"position":0},"title":"Because Big Health Care needs to become Bigger Health Care!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Jul-16 11:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The merger of Anthem and Cigna sounds like a positively awful thing to do -- except, perhaps, for executives and shareholders of both companies. 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